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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keithokane:
So I rooted and flashed the lighting rom on my SGS2 and then I try to install the Ice Cream Sandwitch Theme on the other fourm and now I keep getting this error:

Select an Action

Select an application for the USB device

Activity %1$s(inprocess %2$s)is

Please if anyone know please post

thanks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AJ.Rockwell:
Hey there, not exactly this, but I borked my ROM also by flashing a theme that was NOT made for my ROM's base.

Just reflash the ROM in recovery again and you'll be fine :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keithokane:
Thanks for the reply I panicked that much I never thought in doing that.

It worked to btw lol thank god phone back in business, im new to phone modding got fed up modding other things and im sorry for the wasteful thread.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AJ.Rockwell:
Hey man no problem, I kinda freaked out as well when my phone got into an infinite reboot loop, then I googled for a bit and found out that this saves your phone haha.

Cheers mate, next time be on the lookout a theme with your PDA version - open your dialer and enter *#1234# - it will show you a screen with basic firmware info - and always download themes for your PDA version (for example XXKI3) and be sure to get odexed/deodexed version based on your ROM :)

Enjoy your modding!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ledoweb:
I really love the new graphic style in Android ICS, especially for the blue fades that replaced those horrible plain black backgrounds in almost every list/app/screen. ;) However, the app drawer background is still completely dark, and I was wondering...is there a .png or a file in the android framework, that lets us customizing the app drawer background opacity or better, the entire drawer background image?

The settings blue fade background would be a lot better of plain black, for example. :D Can you at least point me to the right direction? Thanks in advance!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Milamber33:
The app drawer is part of the launcher, I believe, so poking around inside the launcher's .apk file would probably be a good place to start. That said, I probably know less about modding Android than you do, so I could be dead wrong... :p
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ledoweb:
Actually, I think this too - despite I talked about the 'framework'. The problem is, that a common android application is made up by a res folder, full of .pngs and pictures, and a lot of other folders that contain all the .xmls for the app itself, that I never achieved to edit in any way. And because I'm sure the drawer background is part of a style .xml, probably being defined by a string such as "background_color=0,0,0/transparency=0" (example taken by some .xmls edited on PC, I actually have no idea of how these things are written in android), it could be useful to know where to find something like that or how to edit this kind of values ;P
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ledoweb:
C'mon, I can't believe everyone actually never tought of changing the drawer background! I mean...this is one of the first feature that you -devs of several alt. launchers- will have to add, and so far (think to ADW) it has not been so difficoult! So...please, if you know something on that, point me to the right file or config!

I downloaded Launcher2.apk, extracted it, and gone through each single file inside. And "Drawer Layout" or "Drawer Background" aren't there. What could I do next?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AndHel:
Looking at the Launcher2 source, it is a xml file in the drawables folder named wallpaper_gallery_background.xml.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ledoweb:
wallpaper_gallery_background.xml - it was one of my search result for "backgound" keyword. But I went over it, since I think is related to the wallpaper picker (the little gallery of wallpapers at the bottom of the wallpaper selection screen...). Any other ideas?

p.s.: Happy that finally someone is paying attention to this topic... xda doesn't help people with a few posts or subscribed only some months ago (and that doesn't implies that they're newbie or dumb è_é) in ANY WAY... ;D I think this would be a very appreciated feature, this thread has a lot of views in just 1 day and a half!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AndHel:
I will play around with the source and get back with you.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mb02:
Only thing I could find in Launcher2 is in drawable-xhdpi. The first PNG is apps_customize_bg.png and its a black image. Didn't see any XML files related to app drawer, which leads me to think its all hidden in smali code or another apk.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ledoweb:
@AndHel Great! That's the answer I was waiting for! Thank you so much...I hope we'll be able to find something relatively easy to handle ;D

BTW, it would be very interesting knowing a bit more about Android decompiling and modding...if you want, explain me (even very quickly) how will you reach certain files/configurations, if you'll do, when you'll do.

@mb02 Thank you for your efforts too, I hope you're wrong but I fear you're right...absolutely not even a single word that remembers the "app drawer"! Maybe with your patience, we'll find out more!

...and I keep searching around /system for any kind of thing graphic-related to this damned drawer ;P
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mb02:
In every iteration of Android prior, including skinned versions (Sense, TW, blur) the app drawer coding and images resided in the launcher (Rosie, Launcher, etc). The naming, however, wasn't ever "app drawer" but "all apps" as drawer was never he official term for the all apps view. Rosie launcher had multiple XML files in the Rosie.apk res/layout folder that dealt with this "all apps" as well as related images. With the absence of anything related to apps in this Launcher2.apk, I feel as though everything was moved to smali or in another apk, unless they cleverly hid it in another XML in Launcher2.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tristan202:
It's within /res/layout in Launcher2. The file is called apps_customize_pane.xml

Just change the 2 values ff000000 into something else, i.e. bb000000 to make them slightly transparent.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ledoweb:
It sounds promising...i thought that file was for a screen called "apps customization" :D

...may I ask which other letters could I use to increase/decrease opacity? AFAIK, numbers are for color and letters are for alpha...right?

Anyway, thanks so much for this solution! - I'll give it a try as far as I can. BTW, no way to replace a colour with something better, like a .png? Maybe just removing that string, and replacing it with something slightly different...

Edit: I'm having troubles in editing that .xml. Apktool fails decompiling Launcer2.apk probably because I'm using an old version of the android SDK, and this means...that I'm stuck at unreadable .xmls. I'm waiting for the SDK manager to have all updates installed, and then I might be able to finally "undress" this damned drawer ;P
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kevin@TeslaCoil:
This is likely harder than you expect. A few technical notes (and yes it's possible this will be a Nova feature in the future but it's not officially planned at this time).

1) App drawer is indeed called "AppsCustomizePagedView"

2) When viewing the app drawer, the launcher disables the wallpaper from showing (I believe as an optimization). I think if you made the drawer fully transparent you would see (in order from top to bottom):

Drawer

Smaller sized home screens

Black background

If you're editing source you can prevent the black background by changing updateWallpaperVisibility(). To hide the home screens you'd probably have to change the animation code in showAppsCustomizeHelper which could be a bit tricky.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] locomain:
i managed to get the app drawer transparent and indeed a black background..

but cant find updatewallpapervisibility anywhere

where can it be found? is it a xml or in a xml ?

thnx!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Milamber33:
For that you have to edit source files and recompile, it's not just an XML edit.

Sent from The Past into The Future via The Present. :-)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] locomain:
ok!thnx!

i found the trebuchet source on gethub

i managed to change the source so the black screen and all is gone and the drawer is transparent.. but i cant test it because i dont know how to compile it

can you tell me ? thnx
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Milamber33:
There are plenty of tutorials on setting up an Android build environment and compiling the source floating around. They will be far more detailed and useful than I could be.

Sent from The Past into The Future via The Present. :-)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] locomain:
I did it

I made it transparent its on a thread i started
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kleverman:
Where is the thread? :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hxdrummerxc:
Im gonna play around with this a bit when I have the chance....

But, using APKtool to decompile or recompile is very similar....

If you already have apktool all setup with your Roms framework file, and you already decompiled the file...... to recompile, all you have to do is use the command "apktool b foldername"

where folder name is the folder that it decompiled the apk to (likely Launcher2)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] locomain:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1441973
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] locomain:
the only thing that i cant figure out is

how to get rid of the workspace in de background.. :\

i got the source but cant test the ish because i cant deodex it

does someone know how to do this in smali ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 2574792:
Hi

I have a question regarding facebook sync. Some of my gmail contacts have different names than on their facebook accounts. For example, "Jacob Chan" might be "Jake C" on Facebook.

After facebook syncing on ICS, they now appear as two contacts in the People app. Is there a way to work around this, aside from changing my gmail contact name?

I'm on Pete Alfonso's Nexus S ROM and Ezekeel's Glados 2.6 CFS kernel.

Thanks!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
No the names have to match 100%
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crazyjc81:
Well... you could just join the contacts ? Edit Contact and then Menu->Join

This way, you merge duplicate entries and get to keep the Gmail contact name :)

Edit : If you were looking for an automated way, then I dont know of one. HTC sense has really amazing contact matching. Maybe there's an app on the market that can do the same thing ?

---------- Post added at 07:12 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:04 AM ----------

Oh wait.. just remembered. GO Contacts Ex. It has options to find duplicates using names, phone numbers and email id(i think). Havent tried it on ICS though.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 2574792:
Thanks :) will take your first advice
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scapcom:
i joined all mine and only one has a pic from facebook. i used to have the starburst rom v1.5.2 and it worked great now that i just switched to blazer v4.0 i only get one pic and there all synced to facebook. anyone know if this is a known bug or did i do somthing wrong
[HTC Inspire 4G] toxicpaulution:
I read online about people having Google wallet and using it on one of those paygo credit cards things... anyone have any ideas how it works and if it works on our already awesome inspire? :)
[HTC Inspire 4G] hungmung:
No chance the inspire doesn't have the near field tech needed for it to work.

Sent through the power of	Cthulhu!!!
[HTC Inspire 4G] toxicpaulution:
Ok thanks for the verify;)
[Nexus One General] Big_O:
Anyone thinking about updating to a Samsung model? The larger screen and faster processing is nice. Lots of speed, quick downloads and community support.
[Nexus One General] dionix05:
I agree with that but they are mostly made of plastic. I still prefer HTC phones because of the aluminum unibody build and sleek design. :)
[Nexus One General] sola fide:
I own two Captivates and a Nexus One. I would not recommend switching to Samsung. I have been so dissatisfied with my Captivate that I am holding out on my upgrade and passing up the SGS2 and Skyrocket in hopes that HTC will deliver something of decent quality on ATT. I've even contemplated switching my main phone back to the Nexus One until something better arrives.

The fact that I'm still stuck on Froyo is absolutely ridiculous. If the Captivate was a low grade phone that would be one story. But the Galaxy S line was a premier lineup when it was released. If you want to feel cheated by a company, join up with Samsung.

Yes there are custom ROMs but without the release of source code they all have problems and bugs. I ran GB through Apex for a long time but eventually got tired of the phone dialer apk crashing every day. Also, some people can't use custom ROMs due to work and Android development is important to them.

I'll admit there are things I like about my Cappy: Super AMOLED screen, screen size, overall smooth performance, plenty of dev work on Samsung phones. But the lack of Android support by Samsung, the poor GPS performance with no fix, and the random shut down problems left a very bad taste in my mouth.

Not to mention, the nice feel of a sturdy metal HTC phone is miles beyond the cheap plastic feel of a Samsung phone. Just trying to give my 2 cents. I'd be glad to share any of my experiences in as much of a non biased way as I can.
[Nexus One General] idunn:
i have had great luck with the tmo sgs2. it's build quality, though plastic, it quite good.

imho
[Nexus One General] JoshX:
Yeah, I'm waiting for a good HTC phone to come out to replace my N1. I can't stand the plasticy feel of the SGII or the Galaxy Nexus.
[Nexus One General] h0lyc0w:
Hopefully, we'll see something good from HTC during CES next week. I've heard rumors of a quad-core HTC phone. Let's hope so.
[Nexus One General] Wirelessgirl:
I had the Samsung Galaxy S II LTE from Rogers and the phone felt so plasticky. There's nothing appealing about Samsung devices. Their RF and call quality are poor. I ended up getting the HTC Amaze and I have no regrets. The build quality on the Amaze trumps any Samsung. Call quality & RF is much better. I'm hoping HTC will announce the rumored HTC Edge quad-core next week. It's too bad Google switched to Samsung to make their devices. I'm not impressed with the build quality of the Galaxy Nexus. It feels plasticky. I prefer the solid feel of a device even if it weighs more.
[Nexus One General] sola fide:
I will at least concede that the plastic was sturdier than I thought. I've had my Captivate since July 2010 and it has survived some big falls and hits. However, the lack of support from Samsung is just too much for me to overcome.
[Nexus One General] sola fide:
I've seen some rumors that would point to this as well but I have a feeling it will still be a plastic styled phone. It wasn't until late December when HTC announced they were going to change their focus in 2012 to produce better quality builds and get away from the cheap feeling phones. I find it hard to believe they would wait so long for that announcement and then have a non-plastic phone at CES.

But who knows...if they do, I will be excited. I just sold my Nexus One today and it hurt a little inside. Such a good phone with a great feel and quality build. Would love to have another HTC in my pocket to replace the Samsung.
[Nexus One General] WiW:
HTC vs. Samsung

body vs. screen

looks vs. graphics performance

I'm waiting for the coming wave. The OG Droid opened the doors for the 2010 wave, but the N1 was the best buy two years ago because it was the first that could stand in line with the new wave of superphones (1 GHz, OLED, etc.). The GN may have started the new wave of 2012, but it's not gonna stand with the rest of the quad-cores (and it's missing external storage?!??!).

I'm still waiting. Next wave is a new day for competition between HTC and Samsung. I'm excited.
[Nexus One General] getsaf:
Agreed, Tegra 3 phones may start the new wave with the 5th low power core. Seems fairly revolutionary to me.
[Nexus One General] Big_O:
A friend has a galaxy note and loves it. The fonts are larger on the home screen for vision impaired. This week is CES so maybe HTC will have some surprises.
[Nexus One General] josemedina1983:
Well HTC released the amazed 4g great looks and build quality. Now if your waiting for a HTC with plain android you might have to wait a while.
[Nexus One General] Sultan of Speed:
NEVER! Their phones are made of cheap plastic. After spending so much on a phone, you atleast would like to get a good feel of the phone....not like the ones samsung makes.

HTC Rocks....All time!!! They know how to make phones.
[Nexus One General] danger-rat:
I switched from my much loved N1 to the Galaxy Nexus, and I'm pleasantly surprised! There are things about the GN I don't care for, but I can't see me switching back...
[Nexus One General] OferR:
Can you elaborate?

Specifically, does it fit in your pocket? front pant's pocket? (trousers :))

Which case do you use?

Thanks
[Nexus One General] danger-rat:
I don't use a case, and it fits in my pocket perfectly. In fact, I had an issue with the N1 falling horizontal in my pocket, which was uncomfortable - I no longer have that issue.

Build quality looks great, though I do love the N1 more. Feel is much better on the GN, much more responsive, and smooth - but then again, what would you expect for the specs?

The LED notifications aren't as cool as the N1, and the lack of trackball can be a pain...
[Nexus One General] GuestX0019:
tried the gn at verizon as i am only a year into 2 year tmo contract, can't buy

loved size and text reading

build seemed ok, not as good as n1--but it was strapped down

8-13 mb dl's on speedteast

no smoother than n1 ics rom i am on--imho

faster webbrowsing--but seemed no faster than my wifi which clocks in at 4-5mb

didn't like menu buttons

when scrolling there is a jitter and out of focus look, then it refocuses

will look at sgsII at tmo, but will, with contract restrictions, probably be looking at quads
[Nexus One General] danger-rat:
It's certainly not way ahead of the pack, like the N1 was when it was released (and for a long time afterwards)...

People are reporting 10 - 15 mb downloads on 4g, but it never get anything like that in this area (with 5 different phones)

I recommend you ditch the contract with T-Mo if you can. No contact options are about $20 a month less than contact, which is $480 over the 2 year duration. Just a suggestion...
[Nexus One General] GuestX0019:
thanks DR

I have 3 phones on the contract, may not be financially smart atm

will look into it--was hoping for tmo to pick it up--like the speed and large text

do you have the scroll jitter and focus issue I described, may be normal

was looking at new blaze coming to tmo also--42mb phone

http://wirelessandmobilenews.com/2012/01/samsung-galaxy-blaze-4g-hd-spec-revealed-nexus-hd.html

but as you know, the n1 seems ageless with running ics now--tough choices
[Nexus One General] danger-rat:
There's a lot of nice phones out there, and more on the horizon. Gonna become harder and harder to commit to something over time. I love having choices, but making decisions can be hard, lol...

My N1 feels tiny now - I love it, but I can't get over how tiny it feels...

Yes, I know what you mean about the text focus thing - can't tell if it's supposed to be like that, or not...
[Nexus One General] bleach168:
The plastic criticism is subjective. After two years of the nexus one, I don't mind the plastic shell of the galaxy nexus at all. In fact, I like that it makes the phone lighter.
[Nexus One General] danger-rat:
Agreed - I like the feel and look a lot. There's more screen, and less body, which I find more practical for me too - but like you say, it's subjective. The best thing about Android is that you have options to get the phone that suits you...
[Nexus One General] OferR:
Can you explain to me what you mean? I can't see any of that on my gn...
[Nexus One General] spidy30:
samsung omnia gt i8000

hello there guys im new here and i want to ask how i can do my windows phone android i see some videos on youtube but i can tell how i do it ? and from where i download programs ? megaupload is closed :(
[Nexus One General] danger-rat:
When you zoom in/out on a web page, out sometimes even just scrolling, it can take a brief moment for the text to re focus...
[Nexus One General] OferR:
I can see it now. It's the text only, not pictures etc.

It's like the text is rendered again with optimal font thickness, making it easier to read.

Nice..
[Nexus One General] :
Exactly--only for a second--just never saw that on a phone before

Maybe due to screen size--not sure
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nick4nick:
Analog Joypad on the Xperia Play is not good for shooting games when moving.How real Analog sticks like the psp or vita?

the iphone and ipad has modded Analog sticks
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
Did you check control settings? Lots of games offer that kind of control rather than swipe.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nick4nick:
thanks i will try that
[HTC EVO 3D] TODDzillaInLA:
can one of you awesome developers make a beats (BLACK / RED) theme for twrp 2.0???

thank you Sir's
[HTC EVO 3D] dased14:
i'll see what i can come up with

edited: thermus has a ics beats one(in the twrp themes thread) but if thats not your thing i can come up with a couple to try.
[HTC EVO 3D] TODDzillaInLA:
black background with beats logo somewhere, red boxes lil red android dude =) something something =)
[HTC EVO 3D] gokart2:
Thread jacking a little, figure I can skip making a post just for this...

Been looking for an specific phone theme. An American Theme, or Patriot Theme, or Red, White, and Blue Theme...Anything that I can show my pride? Can't find anything.
[HTC EVO 3D] dased14:
i'll come up with a little something, that you may find more to your liking(i have a couple ideas runnin around in my head)

---------- Post added at 06:35 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:31 PM ----------

try the d3rps thread might be able to mix and match couple themes

or see if mutant13 has something or if he will put one together(i have only one full phone theme under my belt and its purple)or ask mayfield103, or eg and jeff all of them are great themers

---------- Post added at 06:44 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:35 PM ----------

maybe something like that will be my next theme i try:)
[HTC EVO 3D] il Duce:
mutant13 had a sports theme that was red and blue afaik - new england patroits maybe?
[HTC EVO 3D] dased14:
What do you think maybe something like thisView attachment 841518

Got a few things to tweak still

I have nothing cool to put here!
[HTC EVO 3D] kratos313:
Wow that looks great

Sent from my EVO Titan 3D
[HTC EVO 3D] il Duce:
kickass - you better post it in my thread so I can link it ;)
[HTC EVO 3D] dased14:
Of course,that's where it will be posted(one thread for them all,so its easy for everyone to find)

I have nothing cool to put here!
[HTC EVO 3D] laie1472:
Blue one please LOL

Locked & Loaded

""shooter on Deck""
[HTC EVO 3D] dased14:
Ok, when I get home I'll mess around with a blue one

I have nothing cool to put here!
[HTC EVO 3D] il Duce:
laie have you tried the blue ics beats one in the twrp theme thread? - link in my sig.
[HTC EVO 3D] dased14:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=21035307&postcount=472

red beats and blue beats here
[HTC EVO 3D] laie1472:
Nope but about to lol thanks duce. Hope all is good man.

Locked & Loaded

""shooter on Deck""
[HTC EVO 3D] il Duce:
lol plus dased just posted a new blue beats (linked in OP of my theme thread)

yeah all good, baby girl due in 15 days!
[HTC EVO 3D] jivany:
I would really love a sassibob from xda tv theme she's HOT!!!

I tried to make one and it didn't take so ill leave it to the pros THANKS!
[HTC EVO 3D] dased14:
let me see what i can find(never seen her but heard of her
[HTC EVO 3D] jivany:
Thanks your fast I just sent you a pm lol.
[HTC EVO 3D] dased14:
wow, really congrats. brace yourself them girls are a sprited bunch(have any 8 almost 9yr)
[HTC EVO 3D] jivany:
And there she is .... ..